Malaria And Environmental Change

Question 1

How is Malaria going to get worse?

Answer 1

Global warming making conditions better for malaria.
Hotter.
Humid.
Rain.

Question 2

How is the climate getting warmer?

Answer 2

Human activity.
Burning fossil fuels
This gives off greenhouse gases like co2.

Question 3

Too much greenhouse gases leads to ?

Answer 3

Enhanced greenhouse gases effect.

Question 4

What do greenhouse gases do ?

Answer 4

They absorb the heat.

Making our climate good for living.

Question 5

Too much greenhouse gases?

Answer 5

Temp increase out of control.

Question 6

How will a warmer climate cause more cases of malaria?

Answer 6

Conditions better for parasite to thrive.
People in higher altitudes now have higher chance of getting malaria.
More countries warmer so will receive cases of malaria not just tropics.
More rainfall - better conditions.

Question 7

Why is spread of malaria bad?

Answer 7

Lack of people educated/ immune.

Question 8

Why are the mitigation and management techniques going to need to be updated?

Answer 8

Large scale.
More education / resources
Pandemic.
More parasites immune 
More spreading.
Scientists may find vaccine